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Appointment Screen Features

 

 

 

Schedule Buttons

The appointment screen has the following buttons related to the schedule:

 

Refresh

Refreshes the appointment screen from the database. The appointment form is also capable of updating itself in response to changes made by any other user of the application. Therefore schedule updates, appointment rescheduling, changes in status of a patient can all be seen by you, when the appointment screen refreshes itself. Any administrator of the system has the ability to change the amount of time the appointment screen will automatically refresh itself. By default this time is set to 15 seconds which is the minimum required number of seconds. 

Day View

Shows the single day view of the appointment screen 

Week View

Shows the week view of the Appointment Screen

Adding an appointment is disabled in this view

 

Month View

Shows the month view of the Appointment Screen of a single doctor at one given time. You can change the doctor from the top left hand corner of the schedule.

Adding an appointment is disabled in this view

 

Work Week

Shows the work week of the doctors in the current view. 

Today

The schedule jumps to the current date and day view. 

 

Doctors drop down

You can select a single doctor to be viewed in the schedule from this drop down.

 

Free time

The find button searches for the free time specified in the text box in minutes. The search is limited to 2 days and takes place from the current time or the selected schedule region if you want to search from a later time. If no free time is found by the schedule then it displays a message to the user otherwise a region in the schedule is highlighted wherever the free time slot is found. Free time is dependent on the Staff Roster settings.

  

Print

The print button on the top right hand corner of the appointment form prints the default appointment schedule screen.

 

 

 

Calendar

                              

The calendar in the appointment screen points to the date of the schedule. You can select a single date or a number of dates to view the schedule for those dates. If you press today, the calendar returns to the current date.  

 

 

Waiting room

                      

The waiting room displays the list of patients whose status is set to "waiting".
If you are logged in as a doctor, the waiting room will display only your patients who are waiting.
If you are logged in as an administrator or you are not a doctor, then the waiting room will display all patients who are waiting. Patients are removed from the waiting room when their appointment status is changed from "waiting" to some other status.

 

The waiting room grid has a context menu which is identical to the "Appointment Context Menu". 

 

Doctors

           

You can select any combination of doctors you would like to see in your appointment screen.
The system will not allow you to uncheck all the doctors.
The system will remember your settings and will be saved for then next time you login again. 

Details

              

The details box is only visible to doctors and administrators of the system. It gives the user the total amount of bills and payments made for yesterday and today. 
If you are a doctor, these amounts only refer to your bills and receipts.
For administrators, the amounts will be the total for all the doctors.

 

Inbox

            

The inbox is a shortcut to view your messages. The number of messages is updated dynamically as and when anyone sends you a message. Clicking on either "Total Messages" or "New Messages" will retrieve your messages. 

 

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